Akaunting
Free accounting software for small businesses and freelancers
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What is Akaunting?
Free accounting software with cloud and self-hosted deployment options, providing invoicing, expense management, financial reporting, and accounting features for small businesses and freelancers.
Akaunting pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $12/month (cloud). Free on-premise Standard tier. Summer sale: 30% discount through July 31.
Standard Cloud
Best for one-person businesses
- apps
- 4
- users
- 1 + 1 accountant
- invoices
- 1,000
- companies
- 1
- 1 Company
- 1 User + 1 Accountant
- 1,000 Invoices
- 4 Apps Included
- Unlimited Customers
- Unlimited Vendors
- Unlimited Reports
- Multiple Currencies
- Ticket Support
Premium Cloud
Best for small businesses
- apps
- 10
- users
- 10
- invoices
- 10,000
- companies
- 10
- 10 Companies
- 10 Users
- 10,000 Invoices
- 10 Apps Included
- Double-Entry
- Bank Feeds
- Expense Claims
- Roles & Permissions
- Client Portal
Elite Cloud
Best for mid-sized businesses
- apps
- 30
- users
- 30
- invoices
- 30,000
- companies
- 30
- 30 Companies
- 30 Users
- 30,000 Invoices
- 30 Apps Included
- Estimates (Quotes)
- Payroll
- Projects
- Inventory
- CRM
- Receipts (Scan Documents)
- Shopify integration
- Stripe integration
Ultimate Cloud
Best for accountants
- apps
- 50+
- users
- Unlimited
- invoices
- Unlimited
- companies
- Unlimited
- Unlimited Companies
- Unlimited Users
- Unlimited Invoices
- All Apps (50+)
- Budgeting
- Credit & Debit Notes
- Sales & Purchase Orders
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Custom Fields
- Auto-Schedule Reports
What Akaunting does
The capabilities that matter for accounting software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Double-entry GL
- ✓
- Multi-entity
- Multi-entity
- Multi-currency
- ✓
- Bank feeds
- Aggregator
- AP automation
- ✓
- AR / invoicing
- ✓
- Inventory
- ✓
- Fixed assets
- -
- Project accounting
- ✓
- Tax compliance
- Sales tax calculation and tax rate configuration
- Accountant collaboration
- ✓
- Payments capture
- ✓
- API access
- Full
- Deployment
- Hybrid
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Shopify
- Stripe
- Bank Feeds
Akaunting alternatives
Other accounting software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Akaunting, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 26.00 | 2382.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 18.00 | 1800.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 20.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 49 | 16.00 | 785.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"inventory":true,"api_access":"full","bank_feeds":"aggregator","deployment":"hybrid","ar_invoicing":true,"multi_entity":"multi_entity","ap_automation":true,"multi_currency":true,"tax_compliance":"Sales tax calculation and tax rate configuration","double_entry_gl":true,"payments_capture":true,"accountant_collab":true,"project_accounting":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 50 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |